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Victory Theater
720 J C Penney Drive,
Kemmerer,
WY
83101
720 J C Penney Drive,
Kemmerer,
WY
83101
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Functions: Movies (First Run)
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307.877.6684
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The town had a Victory Theatre operating from at least 1927 to 1956 which has its own page on Cinema Treasures.
This is a newer Victory Theater at a different address which opened around 2005.
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From the late 1950s a newsprint photo of the Victory Theater in Kemmerer.
No showtimes, is this still open?
The Victory Theatre has had two different locations. The Photo lostmemory linked to shows the most recent location on J. C. Penney Drive, but the photo Don Lewis linked to shows the original location on Pine Street between Topaz and Sapphire.
All of the historic buildings on the block in Don’s photo have been demolished, the last of them, the Kemmerer Hotel on the corner of Pine and Sapphire, condemned and demolished as recently as 2004 when it was discovered that its stonework had grown unstable.
The fourth photo down this web page shows the original Victory Theatre, and says that in 2004 plans were first announced for a new Victory Theatre, but it doesn’t say whether or not anything came of those plans, or anything about when the Victory on Pine Street closed, and there’s no indication that the Victory on J. C. Penney is the house that was being planned in 2004, but I think it probably is.
I also think Don’s postcard might be from the late 1960s rather than the 1950s. Despite the prominent mid-50s car, a couple of the cars parked down the block look to me like post-tail fin era models from the late 60s.
There is a also strong possibility, which as yet I’ve been unable to confirm, that the Victory Theatre on Pine Street was actually the original Kemmerer Theatre, which opened in 1910 (I’ve found nothing about the Kemmerer Theatre on Antelope Street, which is listed at Cinema Treasures, but it was certainly not the original Kemmerer Theatre, as that neighborhood didn’t even exist in 1910.)
The only place I’ve found anything about the original Kemmerer Theatre is a history of Wyoming published in 1918. It features a brief biography of George Whitten, original owner of the Kemmerer Theatre. Just in case the Victory is the same theater renamed, I’ll quote the relevant parts of the biography here:
Perhaps someone from Kemmerer will be able to confirm or disprove my surmise that George Whitten’s New Kemmerer Theater of 1910 became the Victory Theatre. I’ve exhausted the sources available on the Internet.Description needs to be corrected. The Victory described has been demolished, and was downtown. There was probably no theater at all for at least a few years, and then they built this metal shed at a different address. Probably ought to split the listing.
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